Volume 41, Number 9 · May 12, 1994
Looking for Order
By Gordon A. Craig
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger
Simon and Schuster, 912 pp., $35.00
In 1716, when the French ambassador François de Callières's treatise On Negotiating with Sovereign Princes was published in English translation, an English reader wrote ruefully that the diplomatic corps of continental states seemed to be filled with persons well trained in civil law and the law of nations, deeply read in history, and acquainted with the interests of the respective princes of Europe. This made a better basis for the conduct of foreign policy than the English style, whose initiatives and démarches he described as being supported by no other authority or argument than Juvenal's Hoc volo, sic iubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas (Because I want it is reason enough).[1]
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